I recently received a small booklet of photos from a dealer of one of my all time heros, Eliot Porter.
On the cover was this simple quote that I thought I should share.
But before all else a work of art is the creation of love,
love for the subject first and for the medium second.
Love is the fundamental necessity underlying the need to create,
underlying the emotion that gives it form, and from which grows the finished product.
Love is the general criterion by which the rare photograph is judged.
It must contain it to be not less than the best of which the photographer is capable.
Eliot Porter
